Defense Is in Panthers LB Luke Kuechly's DNA

Luke Kuechly was a sophomore at Cincinnati’s St. Xavier High School when he first met Duke football coach David Cutcliffe.
Kuechly was a linebacker on a stacked St. Xavier team that was one season away from winning the state championship in Ohio. The team had older Division I prospects, and Kuechly was a skinny kid with wire-rimmed glasses, not yet heavily recruited.